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The Grafana 6.2 stable release includes improved security, enhanced provisioning workflow, a new Bar Gauge panel, Elasticsearch 7 support, and lazy loading of panels, among other things.

Today we release Grafana 5.4.4 and 6.1.5 which include an important security fix. We recommend that you install this version

v6.1 Stable released! A few weeks have passed since the excitement of the major Grafana 6.0 release during GrafanaCon, which means it’s time for a new Grafana release. Grafana 6.1 iterates on the permissions system to allow for teams to be more self-organizing. It also includes a feature for Prometheus that enables a more exploratory workflow for dashboards. What’s New in Grafana v6.1 Ad hoc filtering for Prometheus - A new query-focused workflow for ad hoc data exploration and troubleshooting.

v6.0 Stable released! GrafanaCon LA is underway! Check out the live stream on the Grafana youtube channel. I am proud to announce that we are releasing Grafana v6.0 stable today. Before every major release I feel super excited about the progress that has been made and with this release, this is especially true. Grafana v6.0 brings many new and exciting features and enhancements and at the same time includes a new React platform and architecture for panels & plugins that will fundamentally change Grafana’s future as a platform.

v5.4 Stable released! Grafana v5.4 brings new features, many enhancements and bug fixes. This article will detail the major new features and enhancements. Alerting Limit false positives with the new For setting Google Stackdriver Now with support for templating queries MySQL gets a new query builder! Graph Panel Highlight time regions and more Team Preferences Give your teams their own home dashboard Alerting Grafana v5.4 ships with a new alert rule setting named For which is great for removing false positives.

Today we release Grafana 5.3.3 and 4.6.5 which include an important security fix. We recommend that you install this version

v5.3 Stable released! Grafana v5.3 brings new features, many enhancements and bug fixes. This article will detail the major new features and enhancements. Google Stackdriver as a core datasource! TV mode is improved and more accessible Alerting with notification reminders Postgres gets a new query builder! OAuth support for Gitlab is improved Annotations with template variable filtering Variables with free text support Google Stackdriver Grafana v5.

Today we release Grafana 5.2.3 and 4.6.4 which include an important security fix. We urge everyone using LDAP or OAuth authentication to upgrade immediately.

The recent 5.1 release focused on smoothing out the rough edges from the 5.0 release. The major highlights of the Grafana 5.2 release are two much-requested, long-awaited features.

v5.1 Stable Release The recent 5.0 major release contained a lot of new features so the Grafana 5.1 release is focused on smoothing out the rough edges and iterating over some of the new features. Download Grafana 5.1 Now Release Highlights There are two new features included, Heatmap Support for Prometheus and a new core data source for Microsoft SQL Server. Another highlight is the revamp of the Grafana docker container that makes it easier to run and control but be aware there is a breaking change to file permissions that will affect existing containers with data volumes.

v5.0 Stable Released We have been working on Grafana v5 for most of 2017 and it’s finally ready! This release is important in a different way than previous releases as main focus has been on improving the core Grafana features and attributes. That means vastly improved UX and page design, easier and more flexible dashboard building enabled by a new grid layout system. Better support for large installations with the addition of Dashboard Folders, Teams and Permissions.

Release Highlights The Grafana 4.6 release contains some exciting and much anticipated new additions: The new Postgres Data Source Create your own Annotations for the Graph panel Cloudwatch Alerting Support Prometheus query editor enhancements This is a big release so check out the other features and fixes in the Changelog section below. Annotations Annotations provide a way to mark points on the graph with rich events.

Grafana v4.5 is now available for download. This release has some really significant improvements to Prometheus, Elasticsearch, MySQL and to the Table panel. Prometheus Query Editor The new query editor has full syntax highlighting. As well as auto complete for metrics, functions, and range vectors. There is also integrated function docs right from the query editor! Elasticsearch: Add ad-hoc filters from the table panel Table cell links!

Grafana v4.4 is now available for download. Release Highlights The main highlight of this release is the new Dashboard History feature that was co-developed with Walmart Labs. Big thanks to them for this massive contribution! Dashboard History This features introduces version control for dashboards. Every time a dashboard is saved, a copy of the dashboard is saved as a previous version. A dashboard version can be compared with other versions and a previous version can be restored.

Grafana v4.1 is now available for download. The new version contains a lot of improvement and the majority of them come from pull requests. The fact that we can release 4.1.0 so quickly after 4.0 is all thanks to the Grafana community and all the contributors. Big thumbs up! Release Highlights Graph: Support for shared tooltip on all graphs as you hover over one graph. #1578, #6274 Victorops: Add VictorOps notification integration #6411, thx @ichekrygin Opsgenie: Add OpsGenie notification integratiion #6687, thx @kylemcc Cloudwatch: Make it possible to specify access and secret key on the data source config page #6697 Elasticsearch: Added support for Elasticsearch 5.

Grafana v4.1 Beta is now available for download. The new version contains a lot of improvement and the majority of them come from pull requests. The fact that we can release 4.1.0-beta1 so quickly after 4.0 is all thanks to the Grafana community and all the contributors. Big thumbs up! Release Highlights Graph: Support for shared tooltip on all graphs as you hover over one graph. #1578, #6274 Victorops: Add VictorOps notification integration #6411, thx @ichekrygin Opsgenie: Add OpsGenie notification integratiion #6687, thx @kylemcc Cloudwatch: Make it possible to specify access and secret key on the data source config page #6697 Elasticsearch: Added support for Elasticsearch 5.

Grafana v4.0.2 is stable is now available for download. After about 4 weeks of beta fixes and testing are proud to announce that Grafana v4.0 stable is now released and production ready. This release contains a ton of minor new features, fixes and improved UX. But on top of the usual new goodies is a core new feature: Alerting! Read on below for a detailed description of what’s new in Grafana v4!

Grafana v4.0 Beta is now available for download. As usual this release contains a ton of minor new features, fixes and improved UX. But on top of the usual new goodies is a core new feature: Alerting! Read on below for a detailed description of what’s new in Grafana v4! Alerting Alerting is a really revolutionary feature for Grafana. It transforms Grafana from a visualization tool into a truly mission critical monitoring tool.

The first time I saw the Graphite project I didn’t really understand what I was looking at. My previous exposure to metrics and graphing was mostly limited to Cacti, so I didn’t immediately comprehend the power and simplicity that this new (at the time) tool offered. Over the years I went from curious bystander to empowered user to wanna-be developer to project member, and eventually, to be the unofficial maintainer-slash-face of the project.

Grafana 3.1.0 stable is now available for download! Release Highlights Dashboard Repository at Grafana.net. You can now discover and upload dashboards. Dashboard time range and variables values are now always synced with URL. Constant Template Variable have been added to make dashboard sharing easier (use as metric prefix). Singlestat can now map ranges to text. Metrics Grafana now supports sending metrics about itself. Full changelog Download Grafana 3.

Grafana 3.1 beta is now available for download! In this release we have focused on making monitoring more collaborative by enabling Grafana users to easily share and discover dashboard definitions. There is now a dashboards section no Grafana.net where you can discover and share dashboards for popular infrastructure and server applications. Release Highlights Dashboard Repository at Grafana.net. You can now discover and upload dashboards. Dashboard time range and variables values are now always synced with URL.

Grafana 3.0 Stable is now available for download! Over the past month we’ve been polishing features, fixing bugs and making sure everything is working the way it’s supposed to. We’ve been overwhelmed by the excitement and response around this release. See the features below to get a more in-depth look at what 3.0 has to offer, and check out what else we’ve been up to. Download Grafana 3.0. Live Demo.

Today is the day! We are pleased to announce that Grafana 3.0 beta is released along with a preview of Grafana.net! Since our last release approximately 3 months ago, we’ve been extremely busy. This is the biggest update to Grafana ever, with over 1500 commits by over 30 contributors. Read on below to learn more about what’s new in 3.0 or: Download Grafana 3.0. Live Demo. Release Highlights Commercial Support Commercial Support subscriptions for Grafana are now generally available.

We are proud to announce the v2.6.0 stable release. This release includes a new Table panel, an example of which you can see below. This new flexible panel enables multiple ways for visualizing time series and logs in a tabular format. The release also includes a new InfluxDB query editor, support for Elasticsearch pipeline aggregations, support for multiple Cloudwatch credentials and a ton of minor fixes and improvements. Check out the What’s New In Grafana v2.

Release highlights This release adds a new panel, namely the top requested Table Panel. Yes it is finally here! The reason for the beta release status is because the release also includes a new and more powerful InfluxDB query editor. This new editor works very differently from the previous one and requires more feedback and testing before a stable release can be made. Download Grafana 2.6 beta now The main documentation pages have yet to be updated with information about how to use the new table panel and the new InfluxDB editor so for now refer to this blog post for guidance.

Release highlights Download Grafana 2.5 now This is an exciting release, and we want to share some of the highlights. The release includes many fixes and enhancements to all areas of Grafana, like new Data Sources, a new and improved timepicker, user invites, panel resize handles and improved InfluxDB and OpenTSDB support, LDAP improvements, Graph panel units. New time range controls A new timepicker with room for more quick ranges as well as new types of relative ranges, like Today, The day so far and This day last week.

We’ve been working to implement many of the features you’ve requested since the release of 2.0, and are excited to announce the release of Grafana 2.1 today. We recommend that all Grafana users upgrade to this release. Grafana 2.1 brings improvements in three core areas: dashboarding, authentication, and data sources. As with every Grafana release, there is a whole slew of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. Download Grafana 2.

Grafana 2.0 stable is now released and available for download. We provide deb, rpm and generic binary tar packages for download as well as APT and YUM repositories. If your platform is not included, check the Building from source guide. Download page Installing on Debian / Ubuntu Installing on RPM-based Linux (CentOS, Fedora, OpenSuse, RedHat) Installing via Docker Migrating from 1.x to 2.x What’s New in Grafana v2.

Today is an exciting day for the Grafana project, Grafana 2.0-beta1 is released! So much hard work during the last 5 months has gone in to making this release. Grafana 2.0 comes with its own backend server (written in Go). So upgrading requires a little more than for previous upgrades. Dashboards are 100% backward compatible. We provide deb, rpm and regular binary tar packages for download. If your platform is not included, check the Building from source guide.

As some of you already know, at least those who read the previous blog post on the future of Grafana, we have been working on a backend for the Grafana 2.0 release. A backend is really essential if Grafana is to be able to expand its capabilities to support alerting, PNG rendering of panels, and of course user managment and authentication. A backend will also make it easier to install and get started with Grafana as you will no longer need to learn how to configure nginx or deal with complex CORS issues for Graphite or OpenTSDB.

This is a semi long blog post about my experience working on Grafana during 2014 and the plans for 2015. So if you want to skip the personal & history stuff jump to the end for some news and plans for 2015. In the beginning Grafana has now been in development for a little over one year. The first commit dates to Dec 5 2013. It started just as a late night hack trying to get Graphite to work with the histogram panel in Kibana.

New release today! v1.9.0-rc1 is now available for download. play.grafana.org is updated to run 1.9.0-rc1. There is also a New features in v1.9 dashboard that highlights some of the new features. No breaking changes, so update should be problem free. But this is a release candidate so there could be some bugs. Release highlights 1) Singlestat panel This release marks the introduction of a new panel! A multitude of options makes this panel pretty flexible.

New release today! v1.8.0-rc1 is now available for download. This is probably the biggest release since the first version was released. So many new features, enhancements and general UI improvements that this will likely be a very long blog post. play.grafana.org is updated to run 1.8.0-rc1, now with InfluxDB demo dashboards. There is also a New features in v1.8 dashboard that highlights some of the new features. Release highlights 1) Mixed graph styling You can override any display setting for a specific series using the series name or a regex pattern.

New release today! v1.7.0-rc1 is now available for download. This is a big release with a many new features and improvements. There are also a large number of architectural changes (hence the release candidate status). Release highlights InfluxDB can now be used as dashboard storage InfluxDB can be used as a data source for annotations InfluxDB series aliasing improvements (alias patterns) Elasticsearch can be used as an annotation data source New graph legend options: Align as table and Right side.

New release today! v1.6.0 is now available for download. This is a pretty big release with a many of small improvements and new features. OpenTSDB This release marks the first release with initial support for OpenTSDB as a metrics datasource. Checkout the docs article for how to configure opentsdb. Dashboard editing improvements Adding, moving and changing row settings as well as adding panels is much improved. The row edit icon on the right of the row has been changed into a menu with quick options to move the panel up/down, set height, add panel and delete.

New release today! v1.5.4 is now available for download. Some small new features and enhancements. Check the download page for a complete changelog. One notable change is the unsaved changes tracking. You now get a warning when moving to another dashboard without having saved your changes, or when you close tab / window. The progress for bigger new features and improvements has been slow. There are a number of pull requests that are wating for review.

Just pushed a new release! v1.5.3 is now available for download. There is no big new feature, just a collection of small improvements and bugfixes. Been too busy making this new site to have time for any big new features. Some notable new features in this release is a new error inspector. Now when you get the "Oops! Graphite HTTP Request Error" banner you will also get a view details link that will open the inspector.